According to a new research published by the nonprofit DCA, millions of stolen US University email credentials are available for sale on the Dark Web. According to a new research published by the nonprofit Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) that searched the Dark Web for credentials from the top 300 US universities, millions of stolen email […]
According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour DDoS attack. According to security experts at Imperva, a newly discovered variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet was used to power a 54-hour distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The new variant of the Mirai […]
Millions of websites are affected by a buffer overflow zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-7269, that resides in the IIS 6.0. The II6 6.0 zero-day flaw was discovered by two researchers with the Information Security Lab & School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology Guangzhou, China who published a PoC code exploit on GitHub. […]
The Google hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered a third flaw in LastPass password manager in a few weeks, the expert provided a few details about the issue. A couple of weeks ago, the notorious Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy discovered numerous vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox extensions of the LastPass password manager. Wrote a quick exploit […]
The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the companies in the healthcare industry of FTP attacks. The Cyber Division of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the healthcare industry that malicious actors are actively targeting File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers of medical and dental facilities that allow anonymous […]
Security researchers at MalwareBytes have uncovered a spearphishing campaign that targeted Saudi Arabia Government organizations. Security experts at MalwareBytes have spotted a new spear phishing campaign that is targeting Saudi Arabia governmental organizations. According to the experts, the campaign already targeted about a dozen Saudi agencies. Attackers used weaponized Word document and tricked victims into opening them […]
US federal prosecutors speculate the involvement of North Korea in the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors suspect the involvement of Chinese middlemen who helped the Government of Pyongyang to organize the cyber theft. In February 2016, unknown hackers transferred […]
Malware researchers at Fortinet have discovered a weaponized Word document that is able to start the infection process on both Microsoft and Apple OSs. Security researchers at Fortinet have spotted a weaponized Word document that has been designed to spread malware on either Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, it is able to determine which OS […]
Android Forums notified a data breach, according to the moderators at the site roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. Android Forums is the last victim of a data breach, roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. The moderators at the Android Forums confirmed they’ve been able to identify the alleged compromised accounts, in response […]
Wikileaks released the second batch of CIA’s Vault 7 dump, it contains other precious documents to understand the way CIA was hacking systems worldwide. The Wikileaks Vault 7 dump will make for a long time the headlines, the organization has just released another lot of classified documents related the hacking tools and techniques and exploit codes […]